The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life We tend to think that good marriages and happy families are born of love and care, not spreadsheets. But what if that’s wrong? May 25, 2019 C

The Big Bang Theory gang will gather one last time Thursday night. CBS Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox, covering American identities. Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the firs

A new science of happiness has blossomed. Observing that wealth has not made people happier, some economists have proposed that Western nations should focus on happiness rather than growth. Psychologi

Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not Speaking. When we talk, we can usually make oursel

Alcohol plays a dominating role in American social, political, and economic life — particularly for urban professionals, getting drinks can be as important a form of social currency as it was in colle

Get That Money Brought to you by: Abigail Disney. Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images Get That Money is an exploration of the many ways we think about our finances — what we earn, what we have, and wha

What makes a great manager isn’t the problems they solve, but the questions they ask. Start with these 16 questions here. An employee comes to you and says, “I have a problem.” If you’re trying to be

Paul Garland Idea in Brief The Challenge Managers today are bombarded with calls to give feedback—constantly, directly, and critically. But it turns out that telling people what we think of their perf

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Meghan Daum Post-divorce, I’ve returned to my old ways Published in GEN · 13 min read · Feb 6, 2019 -- Credit: fona2/Getty Images Plus F riday evening, 8 p.m., early summer, New York City. I sit at my

The past few weeks have brought bad news to the hardworking scribes of the news business. Three leading digital outlets—BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and Vice—announced layoffs that left many accompl

If there’s one thing I know about love, it’s that people who don’t find it have shorter life spans on average. Which means learning how the Tinder algorithm works is a matter of life and death, extrap

Yesterday my 13-year-old daughter said to me: ‘Hey fam, can I yeet a heckin’ sandwich?’ Reader, I stared at her for a full ten seconds. I knew most of the words. I’d even used them myself. But I had t

In her novel Gone Girl , Gillian Flynn defines the concept of the Cool Girl : “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, bril

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And this is what they taught me about food, labor, and (my toxic) masculinity 22 min read · Jan 9, 2019 -- The short order line can be understood as a symbol of male rites of passage. Photos: Andrew T

Forget resolutions—these simple, proven methods can make lasting changes in your life 10 min read · Dec 21, 2018 -- Illustration: Yagi Studio/Getty Images J ust about everyone wants to cultivate bette

The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. The old paperback Zork choose-your-own-adventures were just

On the 20th anniversary of The New York Times ’ popular Vows column, a weekly feature on notable weddings and engagements launched in 1992, its longtime editor wrote that Vows was meant to be more tha

When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised abou

Everyone has an opinion about who you are and what you've done. They like to think they know the whole story, but few people ever will. They don't know that you were just a naive girl who fell in love at the wrong time. And gave your heart to the wrong man because nobody ever taught you what good…

Maybe commitment could be a path toward the person I wanted to be, not a reward for becoming her Published in The Cut · 7 min read · Dec 3, 2018 -- Photo: Natasha Fernandez/EyeEm/Getty Images By Ashle

Nikki, a 22-year-old journalism student from Minneapolis, is telling me about the worst date she’s ever been on, with a man called Athens she met at college. “He talked about his goals, his week, his

Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Dating Advice Decision Making Happiness Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 T hink about this for a moment: Why would you ever choose to be with someone who is not ex

12 min read · Aug 27, 2018 -- Going through trauma therapy is a lot harder than I anticipated. Shocking, I know. I’m not sure what I was expecting; I’m not sure I was really expecting anything. It’s c

EDITOR'S NOTE: After this article was published, reporting by Willamette Week revealed that Steve Stanich has a documented history of domestic abuse as well as other legal and financial issues. Those

Want Healthy Relationships? Ditch Loyalty This tired ideal does a lot more harm than good. Published in splattered · 5 min read · Nov 14, 2018 -- Photo by Jon Ly on Unsplash L ove triangle didn’t quit

No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994. This month, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke almost did, losing the race for a US Senate seat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by an astonishing

Logic vs. Designers In my early days as a designer, I relied on Photoshop or CSS to tell me whether something was right or wrong. If Photoshop indicated that two shapes were aligned, then they were aligned. If two different shapes were the same size, then that was the case. If two colours had the…

tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about.Have you

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By Ira Iosebashvili Oct. 5, 2018 11:46 am ET When Anand Kalelkar started a new job at a large insurance company, colleagues flooded him with instant messages and emails and rushed to introduce themsel

The state of the Apple Watch is good. Tim Cook continues to hail its popularity, albeit without any hard sales figures. Most pundits felt it outshined the iPhone at last month’s Apple media event. The

I only wanted one thing out of 2018’s iPhone event: a new iPhone SE. In failing to provide it Apple seems to have quietly put the model out to pasture — and for this I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company ever made. If you were one of the many who passed over the SE back…